Kaiti's Living Book Favorites

  Kaiti’s Living Book Favorites

(Created in 2017; Edited in 2022 prior to Set Your Feet Retreat) 

These were my favorites and my recommendations for CM books. I read other books, of course, but these are the ones that stick out to me the most.

Year 5: 

I didn't read This Country of Ours, but I wish I had. My brother did and it sounded SO GOOD. 

The Complete Books of Marvels by Halliburton

Year 5 free reads:

Little Women

Anne of Green Gables (Series)

Little House on the Praire (series)

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

 

Year 6:

The Elements, A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, Theo Gray

Archimedes and the Door of Science

Animal Farm (weird, but good.)

Year 6 free-reads:

Number the Stars

The Von Trapp Family Singers

The Chestry Oak

God’s Smuggler

Ben Hur

Year 7:

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

Ourselves (This book is actually very applicable to life.)

The Once and Future King

Ivanhoe

The History of English Lit for Girls and Boys

The Life of a Spider

The Wonder Book of Chemistry

The Story of Painting

Year 7 Free reads:

Lord of the Rings

The Tripods Series

 

Year 8:

A Man for All Seasons

Whatever Happened to Justice?

Utopia (this was so deep)

Westward Ho!

Napoleon’s Buttons

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science

Year 8 Free-reads:

Emma—Jane Austen (Did a book study with friends on this)

Freckles (did a family reading tea-time with this)

 

Year 9:

The history speeches are GREAT this year! Especially the speech by William Wilberforce, Jonathan Edwards and Patrick Henry

Are you Liberal, Conservative or Confused?

The Four Loves (this one gets more important when you get older)

War of the Worldviews

Gulliver’s Travels (read this again for college)

She Stoops to Conquer (YES!)

The Count of Monte Cristo (YES!!!)

Pride and Prejudice (I read this as a free read; had to read again for college)

The Elements of Style (great book)

The Microbe Hunters

Year 9 Free-reads:

A Tale of Two Cities (I read this as a reading)

The Screwtape Letters

The Great Divorce

Northanger Abbey

 

Year 10

The accounts of the Potato Famine, English Mill Workers, and Slaves were heartbreaking but so good

Up from Slavery

Character is Destiny (so valuable)

One Blood

The Deadliest Monster (also very valuable)

Sesame and Lilies

Invitation the the Classics (a must-read if you can’t get to all the classics)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (YES!; read again for college)

Frankenstein (AMAZING!)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (yes!)

Silas Marner (yes!)

Rural Hours

Short stories:

The Fall of the House of Usher (I later went on to research this in a college class)

The Necklace

All the essays by G.K Chesterton

A Moral obligation to be Intelligent

Year 10 Free reads:

Mansfield Park

Jane Eyre

                 

Year 11:

Testament of Youth (don’t wait to read this till the last minute)

Winston Churchill’s speeches

Nearly all of the speeches

Nuremberg Trials

Witness

THE HIDING PLACE (YESSSSSSSSSSSSs)

Life and Death in Shanghai (so good)

Economics in One Lesson

7 Men Who Ruled the World From the Grave

The Chosen

Fahrenheit 451

To Kill a Mockingbird (quoted a section for a dramatic interpretation class)

Short stories/Essays

The Lottery

The Inner Ring

Can Beauty Help Us become better People?

On Writing Well   

     

Year 11 Free reads:

Persuasion

The Giver

 

Year 12

10 Books That Screwed up the World

Sophie’s World (weird but very interesting)

Gifted Hands (LOVED this)

The Marketing of Evil

Last Child in the Woods

All Speeches

Hannah Coulter (Instead of Jayber Crow)

Till We Have Faces (as a free read. Weird but profound)

Brave New World

The Naturalist Buys an Old Farm

 

 Full book lists can be found at: https://www.amblesideonline.org